I love going to my grandfather’s house because there are a lot of green trees and clear water all around. I have a number of friends there as well. We have great fun together. One day an incident (意外事件) happened and I will never forget it!
I like playing in the fields. One afternoon I was walking through one of the fields when I noticed something lying curled up on the ground. It looked like a snake. And it was right in front of me. I felt nervous and afraid. I stood still (静止地) for a moment, not knowing what to do. I was afraid that the “snake” would notice me and bite me. I slowly moved and ran back home to tell my grandfather and other people in the village what I saw. Then they came with me to see the “snake”. To my surprise, the “snake” was still lying in the same position. It hadn’t moved at all.
My grandfather and some other people went close to the “snake” and suddenly they laughed loudly. My grandfather told me that it was not a “snake” but a whip (鞭子). He lifted it up and gave it to me. I took the whip in my hand and felt so stupid. Then I found some of my friends laughing heartily. Later I learnt that my friends had planned to play a trick on me by putting the whip there. They had meant to make me “an April Fool”.
1. When the writer noticed something on the ground, he felt ________.| A．happy | B．scared | C．excited | D．worried |
| A．A whip. | B．A snake. | C．A shoe. | D．A ball. |
| A．笨重地 | B．无奈地 | C．尽情地 | D．悦耳地 |
| A．April Fool’s Day | B．An Unforgettable Incident | C．Grandfather’s House | D．A Strange Whip |
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【推荐1】Nobody likes staying at home on vacation when the weather is fine. Last August we decided to spend the day in the countryside. The problem was that millions of other people had the same idea. We moved out of the city slowly behind a long line of cars, but in the end we came to a quiet country road. After some time, we stopped at a farm near the town. We had carried enough food with us and we got it out of the car. Then everything was ready, so we sat down near a road at the foot of a hill. It was very quiet on the cool grass until we heard the bell ringing at the top of the hill. What we saw made us pick up our things and ran back to the car. There were about two hundred sheep coming to us along the road.
1. From the passage we know the writer likes ________ on vacation.| A．staying at home | B．spending a holiday in the open air |
| C．watching sheep | D．playing with friends |
| A．by bus | B．by car | C．by train | D．on foot |
| A．Few people wanted to spend the vacation in the countryside that day. |
| B．They spent their vacation in the countryside. |
| C．They had much food to eat. |
| D．They had their food on the grass. |
| A．the weather was fine that day | B．there wasn’t much traffic(交通）on the roads |
| C．they found a beautiful place | D．they left their food and ran away |
| A．They stayed there. | B．They called for the farmers. |
| C．They left the food there. | D．They picked up their food and ran. |
【推荐2】Do you bury (埋藏) yourself in usual homework during your holidays? Well, that’s not the case for all. More teenagers get unusual homework. Let them show their special homework!
1. How did Liu Jun feel when he heard his unusual homework?
| A．Excited. | B．Shocked. | C．Sad. |
| A．By looking at their leaves. | B．By asking her mother for help. | C．By recording them with cameras. |
A． | B． | C． |
| A．He thought PE is the easiest lesson. |
| B．He failed to finish the PE task. |
| C．His football skills have improved a lot. |
| A．To tell us ways to finish our usual homework. |
| B．To encourage us to try different kinds of homework. |
| C．To introduce us several kinds of unusual homework. |
Children do not go to school in those two months. Some people like to stay at home, read books, or watch TV. Many families take their lunch to eat at a place with many trees or a nice lake.
Some people have enough time and money to travel to other countries like France, Japan and Australia. They usually fly to these countries. Many families travel by car or train to see interesting places in their own countries. Their favorite cities are New York, Chicago, Miami, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Not everyone likes to go to busy cities. Some families travel to mountains or beautiful valleys.
根据短文内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选择正确答案，并将其字母代号填入答题卷相应空格内。
1. is a good season for vacation.
| A．Spring | B．Summer | C．Autumn | D．Winter |
| A．read books | B．travel | C．watch TV | D．go to work |
| A．in the office | B．near a cinema |
| C．near a big factory | D．near a nice lake |
| A．money and friends | B．friends and time |
| C．money and time | D．food |
| A．Summer vacation is about two months long. |
| B．Some people usually go to other countries to travel. |
| C．Everyone likes to travel to busy cities. |
| D．It’s often hot in July and August in America. |
【推荐1】Peter woke up in the middle of the night and saw something white in his garden. It seemed to be moving towards the house.
“That is a thief (小偷)!” He thought, and he took his gun and shot (开枪) at him. Then he went back to bed, because he was too frightened (害怕) to go out of the house in the dark.
The next morning Peter went out and saw one of his white shirts hanging on the clothes-line in the garden, his wife had washed it the day before and hung it out to dry. Now it had a bullet-hole right through middle of it. “My God,” said Peter, “I was lucky last night. If I had been wearing that shirt, the bullet would have killed me! And he called his neighbours together and asked them to thank God for saving him.
1. At midnight Peter in saw ________ in his garden.| A．something strange | B．a thief | C．something white | D．a ghost |
| A．his wife in the garden | B．the clothes-line |
| C．the thief dead | D．a bullet-hole through the white shirt |
| A．his neighbours | B．his wife | C．the thief | D．his bullet |
A poor man arrived at a small village. He had no food or money, but he only had a plate and a pot. He was very hungry, then he had a good idea. He made a fire, and put his pot on it. He was pouring some water into the pot. The villagers asked, “What are you doing?”,“I am making a plate soup”, he answered. Then he put his plate into the pot.
The poor man began to tell interesting stories. Some minutes later, he tasted the soup and said it was nice but a bit of salt would be better. One villager came back and brought some salt for the soup.
The poor man told more stories. More and more people came to listen to his stories, and he always said some carrots would be better for the soup...Then he got some carrots, and then more people brought some potatoes, a few onions, a bit of meat, and so on.
Finally the soup was Ok, and everyone enjoyed the soup.
1. What did the man have?| A．Some mone | B．Some food | C．Some salt | D．A pot |
| A．His plate | B．Some salt | C．Some carrots | D．Some meat |
| A．To havehis meal. | B．To let the villagers know his special soup. | C．To get some salt for his soup. | D．To let the villagers taste his soup. |
| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Five. | D．More than five. |
| A．The man was slow. | B．The man was very clever. | C．The villagers were clever. | D．The villagers didn’t like listening to stories. |
【推荐3】A blind boy sat there with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said, “I am blind, please help.”
There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins and dropped them into the hat. He then turned the sign around and wrote something on it. He put the sign back and walked away.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and ask, “Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you do?”
The man said, “I only wrote the truth in a different way.”
What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.”
Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second one told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.
The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second one told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.
There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.
Treasure (珍惜) what you have. Someone else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help.
Be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way.
1. From the passage we know that________.| A．the boy is the man’s son. |
| B．the man is one of the boy’s neighbors. |
| C．the boy is blind and needs help. |
| D．the boy works for the man. |
| A．Treasure what we have already had. |
| B．Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it. |
| C．We are so lucky that we are not blind. |
| D．Try your best to help those who need your help. |
| A．The hat began to fill up after the man wrote some words on the sign. |
| B．The man took away all the few coins from the hat. |
| C．The boy wanted to get enough money to go to school. |
| D．Nobody wanted to give any coins to the blind boy. |
| A．承认 | B．接受 | C．表扬 | D．辨认出 |
| A．Giving makes receiving! | B．Be kind and creative! |
| C．Be kind to the blind! | D．Do not always get, but offer! |
【推荐1】97-year-old Chia-ying Yeh has spent most of her life teaching Chinese poetry.
Born in 1924 in Beijing, Yeh showed her gift for poetry by writing poems at age 10. In 1941, she got into the Fu Jen Catholic University to study Chinese literature (文学). Sadly, in the same year, her mother died of a disease. But that didn’t stop her from following her dream. After finishing her studies, she started her life of poetry teaching around the world.
The 120-minute documentary (纪录片), Like the Dyers Hand, is a film about Yeh. It took director (导演) Chen Tsun-shing three years to make it. The workers of the film interviewed Yeh 17 times.They also travelled to all places Yeh stayed before, including (包括) 10 areas in China, the US and Canada, and interviewed 43 people close to Yeh, mostly her students such as writers Pai Hsien-yung and Hsi Muren.
Chen thinks Ye is like Odysseus, a heroin the work by the Greek poet Homer. “Odysseus spent ten years trying to get back to his own country. Yeh also keeps looking for her physical and spiritual (精神的) hometown. In her early life, she lost her parents. At her old age, she lost her daughter. Studying poems not only helps her remember the joyful moments but also helps her get through the hard times,” Chen said.
1. When did Yeh’s mother die?| A．When Yeh was 41. | B．When Yeh was 24. |
| C．When Yeh was 17. | D．When Yeh was 10. |
| A．What Yeh’s early life was like. |
| B．What people did to make the film. |
| C．What the director thought of the film. |
| D．Why the director wanted to make the film. |
| A．It was not easy to make the film. |
| B．Both Yeh and Odysseus are poets. |
| C．Yeh spent ten years on her way home. |
| D．Poems give Yeh power in some ways. |
| A．Hsi Muren is a close relative of Yeh. |
| B．Yeh started to write poems at age three. |
| C．The film Like the Dyer’s Hand is 2 hours long. |
| D．The workers of the film interviewed Yeh’s parents. |
| A．Travel. | B．Culture. | C．Science. | D．Today’s news. |
Last weekend, the four members of my family spent an enjoyable holiday at the Magic Kingdom - Disneyland. And one event made our visit seem truly magical.
We got to the front of the line at Space Mountain, only to find out that our little daughter Gloria couldn't take her ice-cream on the ride. We were so excited that we all forgot ice-cream was not allowed on the ride.
Gloria broke into tears and we all had no idea what to do. Then Murphy, one of the staff(员工) members, came over. She bent down and told Gloria that she would hold the ice-cream for her and give it to her when she finished the ride. Gloria said, "Promise?" Then she gave Murphy her ice-cream, and she completely enjoyed the ride.
Sure enough, as we walked out the exit, there was Gloria's new friend with "her" ice-cream. Now you and I both know what happened, because we know that an ice-cream won't last twenty minutes on a summer afternoon in Florida. Murphy knew what time we would get off the ride; she went to the nearest shop and bought a brand-new ice-cream thirty seconds before we walked out the exit. Gloria said, "Thank you," but I'm sure she thought it was the same ice-cream.
We know that someone tried hard to make our visit special. Thanks so much for going above and beyond!
Your fan, Carmen Rivera
1. Before the ride, Gloria cried because _________.
| A．she couldn't find her parents in the line |
| B．she was too little to take the ride |
| C．she couldn't take her ice-cream on the ride |
| D．she had to wait for twenty minutes |
| A．in the ice-cream shop | B．at the exit |
| C．in the front of the line | D．at the entrance |
| A．took Gloria to the nearest shop |
| B．asked her new friend to help Gloria |
| C．helped Gloria get off the ride |
| D．bought a new ice-cream for Gloria |
| A．Murphy | B．Disney | C．Gloria | D．Carmen |
| A．order ice-creams | B．promise to visit again |
| C．express her thanks | D．give some suggestions |
【推荐3】Mr Evans works in Sydney. Last week he had a two-week holiday, but he didn’t know where to go. He said to his friend Robert, “I hate the hot weather here, but I can’t think of a cool place in Australia. Where shall I take my holiday?”
“That’s easy,” said Robert. “You can go to Moscow. Snow and ice are covering the ground there now.”
Mr Evans agreed with his friend. He bought a plane ticket and soon arrived in Moscow. He was having a good time there, but one day he got into trouble(麻烦). After lunch, he went to a park outside the city. He noticed a dog following him when he was walking past a house. It was hungry and wanted some food to eat. But Mr Evans had no food in his pockets. He tried to shoo(以嘘声轰走) it away, but it began to bark at him. Just at that moment, he saw a stone on the ground. He tried to pick it up, but he couldn’t.
“How strange these Russians are!” Mr Evans said to himself. “They do not tie up(拴住) their dogs, but firmly(牢牢地) tie down the stones!”
1. Mr Evans is ________.| A．Amcrican |
| B．Russian |
| C．Australian |
| D．Chinese |
| A．hot weather |
| B．cool weather |
| C．rainy weather |
| D．cold weather |
| A．by train |
| B．by bus |
| C．by air |
| D．on foot |
| A．跳 |
| B．叫 |
| C．追 |
| D．咬 |
| A．it was too cold |
| B．it was too heavy |
| C．the Russians tied their stones to the ground |
| D．it was not a stone |
